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Our Private Client Group provides specialist legal and taxation advice to private, institutional and commercial clients.

We focus on providing expert technical advice on trust, estate and charity law issues and on the creation and implementation of innovative and efficient arrangements for the preservation, management and transfer of wealth. We are dedicated to providing a top quality personal service with a strong emphasis on meeting clients’ needs, discussing their concerns and carrying out their wishes at every stage of life.

We are also skilled at internationally-structured succession planning and estate administration.

We work closely with our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department on contentious private client issues including succession claims, trust disputes and marital disputes and with our other colleagues on corporate and tax matters.

Our work is necessarily discreet, and our clients remain confidential.

Owen O’Sullivan

Managing Partner

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Experience

Recent significant experience includes advising:

On the establishment of a philanthropic structure to finance the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter.
On the administration of the largest and most complex Irish estates, dealing with significant debt issues and cross-border arrangements.
On the establishment and re-organisation of offshore structures including private trust companies, foundations and purpose trusts.
On the taxation of offshore trust structures with Irish connections dealing with issues such as domicile status, discretionary trust tax and related tax issues.

Areas of Expertise

Our expertise includes:

Succession law including the preparation of wills and the administration of estates
Trust law including the establishment, administration and break up of onshore or offshore trusts
Asset management and protection
Family partnerships
Pre-marriage planning and pre-nuptial agreements
The law of capacity, enduring powers of attorney and advanced healthcare directives
Philanthropy on a national and international basis
Charity law including the establishment, regulation and reorganisation of charities
Inheritance tax and all taxation issues affecting estates and trusts